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Countdown in Cairo takes readers on a nonstop spellbinding chase through a modern world of terrorists,art thieves, and cold-blooded killers. When federal agent Alexandra LaDuca travels to Egypt to investigate thepossible sighting of a former mentor, she is throwninto the deadliest game of double cross in her career. An American woman working alone, she must rely on her wits, her training, and her skill with lethal weapons not just to succeed, but also to survive.

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When federal agent Alexandra LaDuca travels to Egypt to investigate the possible sighting of a former mentor, she is thrown into the deadliest game of double cross in her career. An American woman working alone, she must rely on her wits, her training, and her skill with lethal weapons not just to succeed, but also to survive. A CIA agent whom she believed to be dead appears to be alive; and why is he dressing like an Arab and speaking Russian? Tough, savvy, and cool under fire, Alex pushes herself to the limits as she puts her life on the line once again for her faith and her countryall while working with a mysterious new partner who may or may not be trustworthy. This fast-paced contemporary espionage thriller is exactly what Noel Hynd fans have been waiting for, the third and final installment of the Russian Trilogy. It will keep everyone turning pages and guessing from beginning to end.

Author Bio

Noel Hynd has sold more than four million copies of his books throughout the world, including The Enemy Within and Flowers From Berlin. His most recent novel, Hostage in Havana, is the first book in the Cuban Trilogy starring Alexandria LaDuca. Hynd lives in Culver City, California.

Publisher's Weekly

Hynd (The Enemy Within) completes the Russian trilogy that features U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca. A stark opening chapter concludes with LaDuca zipped in a body bag in a morgue outside Cairo, and the action then goes back two months to introduce the central puzzlethe sighting of Michael Cerny, a CIA agent believed to be dead, then the bang of a car-bomb explosion. After that breathtaking beginning, the action gets leisurelytoo leisurely. It takes half the book for LaDuca to get to Cairo to solve the puzzle of Cerny, for whom she worked, following complications in New York and in Rome that weave into the action two major supporting characters, the Russian Yuri Federov and the Italian Gian Antonio Rizzo, who are in some respects more intriguing and complex than protagonist LaDuca. LaDuca's main partner in Cairo, Voltaire, provides more dramatic tension in his moral ambiguity than the offstage character, Cerny. Despite some plotting softness, this espionage thriller is stylish and provides an especially satisfying close without being in the least preachy. (Jan.) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.

Read the entire triology series in two weeks. Very good and suspenseful. Right up there with the Tom Clancy's of the fictional world. Really makes you stop and think where we are in the end times with the terrosists cells that are thriving in every nation.

I read this whole trilogy. The suspense and intrigue would have rated 5 stars. However, I expect more from a Christian author selling through Christian avenues. I was so sorely disappointed and even disgusted with the author over missing opportunities to lead his readers to Christ. Three (3) times during the course of the Trilogy, the Russian mobster point-black asks the heroine about how to become a Christian. He doesn't use those exact words, but his intent seems clear from what is written. All three times, the heroine does not answer him. Once she refers him to another book, not the Bible. What's up with that!?! What a waste of paper. Mr. Hynd, you might as well sell these books from a secular vendor and don't waste anyone's time calling it Christian fiction.